Europeans and westerners do not earn 40K-50K minimum! Maybe if they work in oil and gas...?

Myself and my friends are experienced professionals with graduate degrees earning around 20,000 QAR including all allowances. We are all single, in our 30s, have shared accommodation in various places around the city, go on holiday once or twice a year and avoid the garish 'luxurious' shops and VIP bars that we wouldn't visit back home anyway :-)

Generally similar wages to our home country but we don't pay tax out here - although rent is much more expensive so it's difficult to put aside for savings which is silly because we don't receive the company pension contribution that we do at home.